Speak Up for the Poor is delighted and honored to have been awarded a grant of $50,000 from Together Women Rise (RISE), toward our Girls Health and Safety Program.
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Here are five skills that every Bengali needs to be more independent and live life boldly.
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Speak Up is proud to have earned a 2023 Platinum Seal of Transparency from the non-profit database Candid (formerly known as Guidestar).
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We are happy to announce that Speak Up has been awarded a grant from the ASEA Advancing Life Foundation. This grant will help fund the expansion of our college women's dormitory in Khulna city.
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We are happy to announce that Speak Up has been awarded a grant from the BNI Foundation. This grant has funded the construction of a brand new Learning Center (school house) in Kashipur village – one of the 35 villages and urban communities in which our Girls Education Program (GEP) operates in Bangladesh.
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Speak Up is proud to have earned a 2022 Platinum Seal of Transparency from the non-profit database Candid (formerly known as Guidestar).
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We are happy to announce that Speak Up has been awarded a grant from Dining for Women, to fund the implementation of our Girls Health and Safety Program in 2021.
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While our biggest project is in Bangladesh, we also support young women in both Cambodia and Lebanon to stay in school. Once or twice a year we have the opportunity to visit the 8 young women we sponsor to stay in university in Cambodia.
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Meet our 2019 class of interns in Bangladesh, young women who are changing their country.
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Some of the girls and young women in our Girls Education Program are getting bicycles to enable them to get to school, and they are experiencing the freedom and power of self-sufficiency.
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We are pleased that Hannah Gray will be visiting our work in Bangladesh in August to help with photography and video and to learn more about our work.
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We’re deeply thankful for Onishi & Associates for their generous support of girls in our GEP in Tipna village in Bangladesh.
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We are grateful for BACHAO and their long-term support of our work in Bangladesh.
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Every month, more than 80 young women in our College GEP meet to receive their monthly stipends and receive a few hours of training on various life skills topics.
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Training Day for 6th grade girls in our Bangladesh Girls Education Program. We’re hoping to inspire thousands of girls here to excel in school, careers, and public service.
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Some girls we know will be illegally forced to get married early merely because they failed their 10th grade exams.
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We have a 15-year-old girl in our GEP who may need surgery to remove a cancerous breast tumor.
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Seven young women from our GEP have now finished nursing school, one in 2018 and six this year.
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Still very minor rain, but some heavy winds, here in the Khulna area. Only damage to our GEP so far is the roof blown off of one of our Learning Centers.
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The path of Cyclone Fani is directly over western Bangladesh where we work.
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